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Choral Journal

October 1986

Download complete issue. An Outline of Performance Practices in Late Fifteenth- and Early Sixteenth-Century Sacred Choral Music by Craig Tolin Travel to Four Cities: Köln, Stuttgart, Hamburg, West Berlin by James Fudge The Development of the English Carol Through the Fifteenth Century by Shelley Batt Archambo



September 1986

Download complete issue. The Cantiones Sacrae of Jan Peiterszoon Sweelinck by David W. Music A Performers Guide To J.S. Bach’s Cantata BWV 106 by Joe Hickman Choral Library Computer Filer by Doug Skerritt Embarking On A Journey by Steven Michelson The Microphone: Monster or Marvel by Ward Swingle



August 1986

Download entire journal here. Another Quadracentennial Celebration: The Choral Collections of Johann Hermann Schein (1586-1630) by William Braun Black Gospel Music and Its Impact on Traditional Choral Singing by James Benjamin Kinchen, Jr. Thoughts on Choral Music in America: Report of a Sabbatical Trip to Six American Institutions by Frauke Haasemann, translation by Brenda Smith […]



May 1986

Download complete issue. ACDA and IFCM, Cooperation for World Understanding by Royce Saltzman Attention, Effort and Motivation in Rehearsal and Performance by Val·Hicks The Great Literature Chase by Jerry McCoy Committee Report on Women’s Choruses: Part II Women’s Chorus LiteratureEdited by Sister Sharon Ann Breden Building A Collection Of Recorded Choral Music by Vance D. […]



April 1986

Download entire journal here. “Letters to a Symphony Chorus” by Robert Shaw Recollections by Howard Swan Robert Shaw at Seventy: Tribute to a Titan by Charles Schisler A Canadian’s Odyssey by Laurie Rowbotham The “Lost” Art of Inspiration by Howard Swan The Importance of The Personal Equation by Howard Swan



March 1986

Download entire issue. Practical Applications of Vocal Pedagogy for Choral Ensembles by Lynn A. Corbin Developing Church Choir Directors by James McCray What’s On The American Choral Composer’s Mind by Paul W. Wohlgemuth Remembering Composer Richard Yardumian by L. E. Carroll The Julius Herford Dissertation Award by Ray Robinson Tonal Unity in Berlioz’s Requiem by David Janower […]